About Mystery Train
Mystery Train was a six-month ICA project bringing together the artist Jessica Voorsanger, Westminster Charity Pursuing Independent Paths and Art on the Underground.
Over six months, Jessica Voorsanger and students from PIP worked together to demystify transport through a series of trips and games, using costumes and karaoke. They visited galleries and museums in the city and toured 'behind the scenes' with the staff at Charing Cross Underground station.
As part of the project, Jessica and the students developed a series of posters with London Underground staff at Charing Cross. Based on the popular game 'Heads, Bodies and Legs', the posters present different sections of each participant's photographic portrait that are mixed up together to make a new set of composite figures, each dressed in the London Underground uniform.
Working alongside PIP's travel training programme, Mystery Train aimed to encourage adults with learning disabilities to travel independently and use public transport to access galleries and museums.
An accompanying publication is available.
Mystery Train was an ICA project in collaboration with Art on the Underground, supported by John Lyon's Charity.